Work in Progress
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In the weeks before the ABNA finalist announcement, I've been keeping busy outlining my fourth book. You know, naming characters, figuring out what they're going to look like, creating character traits/personalities/flaws/etc, jotting down themes and plot ideas, etc, etc. This will be yet another contemporary YA but with more of an edge. People like edge. Teens like edge. Publishers and agents like edge. So I'll give it edge. Less Sarah Dessen, more Courtney Summers. Less Adele, more Metallica. Less oatmeal, more salsa. You know what I mean. Edge.
Very roughly, the theme of this novel is that there are always two sides to a story, and sometimes two sides to a person. It's about a girl named Lexi who appears to the outside world as perfect and together, but inside is really a mess. She's aching for love and stability. Her home life sucks, her mother is useless, her drug-addicted father abandoned her as a baby (or did he? *raises eyebrow*), and her self-esteem hovers at floor level. But she puts on a good show at school and with her friends. Only Nolan, her neighbor and childhood friend, knows the real her. And what about her dad? What sixteen-year-old girl wouldn't be curious about a father she hasn't seen since she was a toddler, a man she doesn't even know or remember? Is he as evil as her mother says? Dun dun duuuuuuun.
Now I just have to figure how to execute it.
In the weeks before the ABNA finalist announcement, I've been keeping busy outlining my fourth book. You know, naming characters, figuring out what they're going to look like, creating character traits/personalities/flaws/etc, jotting down themes and plot ideas, etc, etc. This will be yet another contemporary YA but with more of an edge. People like edge. Teens like edge. Publishers and agents like edge. So I'll give it edge. Less Sarah Dessen, more Courtney Summers. Less Adele, more Metallica. Less oatmeal, more salsa. You know what I mean. Edge.
Very roughly, the theme of this novel is that there are always two sides to a story, and sometimes two sides to a person. It's about a girl named Lexi who appears to the outside world as perfect and together, but inside is really a mess. She's aching for love and stability. Her home life sucks, her mother is useless, her drug-addicted father abandoned her as a baby (or did he? *raises eyebrow*), and her self-esteem hovers at floor level. But she puts on a good show at school and with her friends. Only Nolan, her neighbor and childhood friend, knows the real her. And what about her dad? What sixteen-year-old girl wouldn't be curious about a father she hasn't seen since she was a toddler, a man she doesn't even know or remember? Is he as evil as her mother says? Dun dun duuuuuuun.
Now I just have to figure how to execute it.
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